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Willis v. State

Citations

  • 121 S.W.3d 400
  • 2003 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 843
  • 2003 WL 22717670

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that trial court’s permission to appeal controls over a defendant's previous waiver of the right to appeal in printed plea documents
  • holding that trial court’s permission to appeal controls over a defendant’s previous waiver of the right to appeal in printed plea documents
  • concluding that record demonstrated appellant’s intention to appeal, despite boilerplate waiver on plea-of-guilty form, when State failed to assert waiver in court of appeals
  • concluding that record demonstrated appellant’s intention to appeal, despite boilerplate waiver in plea agreement, when State failed to assert waiver in court of appeals
  • holding that “the trial court’s subsequent handwritten permission to appeal controls over a defendant’s previous waiver of the right to appeal, allowing the defendant to appeal despite the boilerplate waiver”
  • holding a trial court’s permission to appeal controlled over appellant’s previous written waiver of the right to appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Holcomb, Price, Womack, Johnson, Keasler, Hervey, Cochran, Keller, Meyers

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